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McG fits the Superman series too well. Shitty movie, shitty director. It seemed a match made in heaven.

Spiderman 2 - 8/10 Leading up to the release of this film, comic book movies have not been great. In fact, the only comic book movie I've actually liked so far was Daredevil, mainly because it broke away from the sugarcoated films of old. The first Spiderman was an out and out disappointment, despite the fact that everyone and their pet went to see it. It was a lame, tween action film that focused more on the special effect of seeing Spidy fly than anything worthy of mention. This time around, the filmakers brought in Alvin Sargent to write the screenplay, replacing David Koepp. The result is a film filled with more humour, more fun, and more importantly, a better sense of bang for you buck oriented filmmaking. The special effects are obviously superb as usual, Tobey Macguire and Kirsten Dunst are great, and the film doesn't seem to lag at all. Not the best movie of the year, but perhaps the most fun so far.

Indeed. And in a movie about dancing, you'd think he'd be featured a bit more. Oh well.

Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise - On the Road Fred and George Weasley - The Harry Potter Series Mara Jade - Star Wars Expanded Universe Guy Montag - Fahrenheit 451

Honey - 3/10 With every film from 2003 that I see in retrospect, it seems 2004 is looking better and better. This film somehow proves false the notion that you can't take Flash Dance, give it a hip hop theme and produce a product that is actually whiter than the original. I'm no longer entirely sure that Jessica Alba is even a real actress. Maybe she's just a robot, designed to look good and deliver lines like an automatic reader. The dance scenes are very much sub par in comparison to You Got Served, although the acting in both films are on par. This is just another one of those films that are all sentiment, no content. Boy, Gigli seems better and better all the time. Thumbs all the way down, unless you share my passion for awful movies. P.S. Cameos included Jadakiss, Ginuwine, Farnsworth Bentley, Missy Elliott, Tweet, and inexplicably showcased Canadians Maestro and Shawn Desmond. Most of them still managed to out act Alba.

Beef - 6/10 This film takes the original concept of closely analyzing the feuds of the past 20 years in hip hop and spices it up with footage of various battles and performances. It also improves on most hip hop themed documentaries which have all come off as unprofessional (Doesn't hurt that Quincy Jones III produced it). There are parts that lag, and others seem to glorify the violent gangsta rap of the mid-90's, but all in all the message is clear: the leaders of old school hip hop need to step up and remind people that it all used to be for fun. Thumbs up for both fans of hip hop and perhaps for social science majors. P.S. I don't remember Hit Em Up being featured in the film at all. Weird.

Uptown Girls - 3/10 The few people who I discuss movies with all know that I have somewhat of a passion for terrible movies. I've seen most of the big ones, from Gigli to From Justin 2 Kelly to Loser and back again. Most of them are fun to watch. This movie wasn't. It's not one of those movies that tried to do something crazy and failed, it's just a shitty movie. Everything about the plot and characters screams done a million times before. A plot twist towards the end attempts to turn the film around in tear jerking fashion. Unfortunately it's the circumstance that invokes emotion, not performance or scripting. Since anyone can put somebody in a fictional bad spot, the filmmakers get no credit for that, and the rest of the movie is awful. Thumbs down, and yet another movie made last year worse than Gigli. But hell, at least it's better than New York Minute.

SWAT - 6/10 Don't you just love when American movies pick the French as villains and refer to them as frogs? I should get that out of the way, because it's really my only bone of contention with this film. There is nothing impressive about the acting, or scripting in this movie. It's not that kind of film. Instead, it's a action packed, mostly bite and little bark movie that focuses more on an awesome aesthetic quality, along with some brilliant action sequences. It's also one of those movies that oozes testosterone, although not in cheezy misogynist fashion. It's a pop corn movie, and a pretty good one at that. Thumbs up, if you're in that kind of mood.

My point about Joe Carter and the man still stands.

"World Wrestling Federation wrestler Owen Hart, known as the Blue Blazer, died Sunday night...Blue Blazer's partner, White Turtleneck, was unharmed." Not a joke about Owen Hart, but a joke about his ridiculous gimmick. People didn't see the humour.

I don't think we're likely to get any bipartisan opinions about Kilborn on a wrestling board after the Blue Blazer crack. To be honest, it's down to Kilby, Conan and Kimmel for me. Kimmel has kind of a "Too Hot for ABC" kind of humour, and it works, although in small to medium sized doses. Conan is easily the most skilled entertainer of the three, although he tends to do fluff interviews. Kilby is a self serving egotist, but to me it's just a hilarious gimmick for him to go by (even if he does tend to live the gimmick). The interviews seem to have a little more to them than the other two. I like Stewart, but with any political themed show, the further you get away from the middle of the spectrum, the more things that leave a moderate fuming after viewing. So Kilborn, if only because I knew he wouldn't get a fair shot amongst bitter wrestling fans.

After I'm done with the Harry Potter books I'm going to get into the Clinton memoirs. It's supposed to be getting great feedback, maybe you should check it out.

Ruth, although there is clearly something fucked up about no hockey players even coming close. There's also something fucked up about the continued holding down of Joe Carter by the man.

Canada moved up 5 places, for anyone interested. 4 of those 5 are owed to Dwayne DeRosario. Cuz he's bad ass. BAD ASS.

Longest Night Ever for Ecuador. I new Argentina was the better team, but that was embarassing. Does anyone else think that those fields are odd looking in size, or is it just the TV coverage?

My vote for Joe Carter stands. :ohwell: Well, other than the fact that I voted for Bobby Orr. But Carter rules. We still love ya in Canada buddy!

Kanye West's "New Workout Plan" is so the twenty first century version of that song. So that.

*pies you in the face for being a sleepy bulltoad* I shall nominate Joe Carter and Daryl Sittler, because I'm a Toronto whore. Not in the literal sense of course.

Alright, first let me say I liked the movie. Moore builds the case for Bush being an incompitent President. However, there are two things I must mention that I disagreed with: 1) Moore's "recruiting" of the Reps children: This is a completely unfair argument. I understand that it's interesting that only one rep has a son over in Iraq. However, to go and recruit the kids through parents is ridiculous. People do not send their children overseas. It is the children of these parents who need to sign up. To try to get these representatives to sign their kids up is unfair, since in the end it's the kid's decision. Asking the representatives whether they'd want their sons and daughters overseas would have been a better tact, but he didn't do that. 2) The Classroom Scene: My objection here is not to Moore's technique, but just my interpreting it differently. By 10 minutes into this movie, I felt oddly sorry for Bush. He's a man who's been unsuccessful in life, and has been President for a embarassing nine months, only to have this dumped on him. He's quite clearly not up to the task of President, and this new news completely takes him a back. Those 7 minutes in which he stayed in the classroom was likely a time of panic for him, not because he's some kind of criminal, but because of the weight of this situation. That's it. I was surprised at how little of this documentary seemed unfair to me. Bowling for Columbine was really bipolar for me, and this seems like a much more balanced film. Hope not to get jumped on with childish insults for this, but with the gravity of this thread I guess I shouldn't hope for too much.

Fahrenheit 9/11 - 7.5/10 I'll be honest, Bowling for Columbine (no matter how much I enjoyed my first viewing) bothered me. Not because it wasn't an exquisite example of partisan docu-journalism, but more because of its dishonesty. Sure the message was getting across, but at what cost? I won't get into this any further, but suffice to say, I went into Fahrenheit 9/11 completely compared to react the same way again. Fortunately, there's enough heart in this film to prevent such a reaction. That's not to say that there isn't a fair share of dishonesties this time around. For example, Moore came out this week defending attacks that he had led people to believe that the CIA had flown the bin Laden family out of the country before flights had been reinstated by saying that he clearly indicates otherwise. Clearly, he must have left that voice over on the cutting room floor, because there was no such statement. The film is viciously one sided, and seeks to do more than just political damage to George W Bush and his presidency. However, I couldn't help but feel almost sympathetic to Bush about 10 minutes in just through Moore's explanation of the tremendously grave circumstances the clearly incapable president was placed in. However, once Moore turns his attention to Iraq he is clearly in control of the audience. Through footage I'm still not sure how he aquired (i.e. press conference outtakes, footage of military operations in Iraqi villages etc.) he completely tears apart the arguments for war on Iraq, and casts doubts on the country as being the real enemy. Perhaps the most surreal moment comes at the very end of the movie, when Bush manages to somehow mess up the "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" line. It is clear that the United States are being run by a man completely incapable of the job, and unrelentless critiques like this film are perhaps the best mode for illustrating this. Thumbs up, although don't take everything Moore says for complete truth. White Chicks - 5/10 From one topical movie to another, White Chicks is a half hour tongue in cheek joke about the Wilson twins, fictionalized (and because of this not slanderous) versions of the Hilton sisters. Half an hour into the movie I was agasp at how horrendously unfunny the movie was shaping up to be, especially for a Wayans brothers film. By the end, I was disappointed; not by a movie that is unfunny from start to finish, but by one that comes so close to redeeming itself in the second half that it's hard not to recommend. In truth, the final 40 minutes of the movie are laugh a minute, especially a Terry Crews cover of Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles". This is where the Wayans brothers (Marlon and Shawn, because rules like these need not apply to Damon, who is currently one of the funniest people on TV) truly shine, by taking a script that is more or less a stinker and making you come out of the theatres still feeling good about the movie. Thumbs down, yet I still recommend it to anyone wanting a sometimes funny polar opposite to the thinker "Fahrenheit 9/11".

Better yet, she's coming to Guam? Score one for every other country. It looks like we almost have another Celine-Rene on our hands.

Shit, when I saw "Wylde Bunch" I thought Zakk Wylde had a side project. What I found was unnerving. And Taboo > Will.I.Am. However, Ozomatli's "Saturday Night" is a fucking wicked song. I haven't heard "This Disaster", but New Found Glory is usually bad ass.

There probably will be.

And that was a Screwjob how? Owens didn't break any rules. It was great to see him stick it to Hitler, and it was probably the greatest sports moment of the 20th century, but it wasn't a screwjob.

As for this poll, I disagree with both of them. First off, Professional Wrestling is not a competitive sport, so it doesn't really warrant mention in a Sports poll. Secondly, while you might choose to disagree with Meier's call, it's clear to see that there wasn't any malicious intent in his call. We're not talking about a black and white textbook case here, it's very grey. In the realm of screwjobs throughout the history of sports, it gets much worse.